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4-947: Before 1999 it was known as the English Tourist Board and between 1999 and 2009 as the English Tourism Council. In 2003, it was absorbed into the British Tourist Authority and was relaunched as a separate body again in 2009. The VisitEngland accommodation assessment schemes were run under licence by Quality in Tourism from 2012 to 2017, when the AA took on the license. The scheme issues quality awards to holiday accommodation, hotel , bed and breakfast , self catering holiday cottages and others. This article about an organisation in England

8-717: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . British Tourist Authority VisitBritain is the name used by the British Tourist Authority (formerly the British Travel & Holiday Association), the tourist board of the United Kingdom incorporated under the Development of Tourism Act 1969. Under memoranda of understanding with the Northern Ireland Tourist Board and the offshore islands of Guernsey , Jersey and

12-536: The British Tourist Authority and the English Tourism Council , and is a non-departmental public body responsible to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport . In April 2009, VisitEngland became more of a stand-alone body from VisitBritain, more on a par with the devolved entities, VisitScotland and VisitWales . In 2005, it was voted the world's leading Tourist and Convention Bureau in

16-516: The Isle of Man , VisitBritain also hosts information on those territories on its website. However, under the 1969 Act, the remit of the organisation extends only to Great Britain rather than the whole of the United Kingdom . VisitBritain was created in April 2003 to market Britain to the rest of the world and to promote and develop the visitor economy of England . It was formed out of a merger between

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